# Post x_342380669227368448 - Post ID: `x_342380669227368448` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-06-05T20:41:27.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_342380669227368448 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_342380669227368448/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_342380669227368448.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > We look forward to making the Old Post Office in DC one of the great hotels of the World. http://t.co/6paf5iPAqK ## Engagement - Likes: 43 - Reposts: 60 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.293Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-23T15:04:58.724Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: June 5, 2013 — Old Post Office DC Announcement ### Contextual Background On June 4–5, 2013, the U.S. General Services Administration finalized lease terms with the Trump Organization for the redevelopment of the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.C. The 60-year lease at $250,000/month (CPI-adjusted) committed Trump to a $200M renovation of the landmark into a 263-room luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. This tweet appears to have been posted to amplify news coverage of this milestone — the linked URL (now dead) almost certainly pointed to contemporaneous press coverage such as the Washington Post's same-day article on the finalization. The hotel eventually opened September 2016 as Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., and closed/rebranded in May 2022. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely aide-written or staff-polished | Confidence: Medium** The UTC timestamp (20:41:27) converts to **4:41 PM EDT** — Trump's most probable location was New York or possibly Washington for lease-related events. This falls squarely within standard business hours, the characteristic posting window of communications staff rather than Trump's documented late-night/early-morning authentic pattern. Additional aide indicators: - **Corporate pronoun**: "We look forward" uses organizational voice. Authentic same-day Trump posts default emphatically to first-person: "I've done the largest house sale in U.S. history... *I love real estate*"; "I feel bad for all @VanityFair employees." The pronoun shift is conspicuous. - **Grammatical completeness**: No typos, incomplete thoughts, or impulsive asides — all characteristic markers of unfiltered Trump tweets. - **Event announcement format**: The post functions as a PR amplification tool — linking to third-party coverage — rather than an emotional, reactive personal expression. - **Minor authentic signal**: The capitalization of "World" (rather than "world") is an idiosyncratic Trumpian stylistic quirk suggesting he may have reviewed or dictated the core message. Insufficient to override the aide profile on its own. --- ### Psychological State and Dynamics **Dominant dynamic: Supply-seeking (admiration elicitation)** No narcissistic injury trigger is identifiable. The post is promotional, not reactive. The psychological function is to broadcast a business achievement and receive admiration for the dealmaker identity. Narcissistic state is **mildly grandiose** ("one of the great hotels of the World") but stable and controlled, consistent with Trump's baseline register for business announcements. No rage, no splitting, no devaluation, no paranoid ideation. **Contextual note on symbolic geography**: The Old Post Office sits on Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House — arguably the most symbolically significant commercial address in American civic life. Trump's acquisition of this location to brand with his name carries a power-proximity valence that, while not explicit in this 2013 post, becomes highly salient in retrospect as Trump moved from business to political ambition. Whether this geographic symbolism was consciously leveraged at this stage is not documentable from this post alone. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals, 2006) **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** - *Extraversion* (moderate-high, ~0.65): Achievement-display impulse present, muted by aide mediation. - *Agreeableness* (neutral, ~0.45): No warmth or hostility; transactional register. - *Conscientiousness* (moderate, ~0.55): Business-focus and future orientation imply goal-directed planning. - *Neuroticism* (low, ~0.15): No anxiety, hostility, or impulsivity markers. - *Openness* (low, ~0.30): Conservative business communication; no conceptual novelty. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** Agency motives dominate (power, achievement, status, ~0.80). Acquiring a nationally recognized landmark for personal commercial transformation is fully consistent with Trump's high-agency motivational profile. Communion motives are essentially absent (~0.10). **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - *Protagonist*: The builder/dealmaker who converts nationally significant spaces into monuments of personal greatness. - *Identity claim*: "One of the great hotels of the World" — transformative ambition asserted as destiny. - *Narrative sequence*: Neutral (neither redemption nor contamination); simple triumphalist statement. - *Contrasting other*: Absent; no enemy is named, implied, or structurally required in this post. --- ### Clinical Indicators **Grandiosity (mild, within baseline)**: The superlative "one of the great hotels of the World" is consistent with Trump's established grandiose register and does not represent a clinical outlier. Same-day posts display equivalent or greater personal grandiosity ("I've done the largest house sale in U.S. history by selling a Palm Beach mansion for $100M, $60M more than I paid"). In context, this post's grandiosity is commercially conventional for a luxury hotel brand announcement. **Malignant narcissism components**: All near-zero. No antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic indicators present. **Defense mechanisms**: None identifiable above threshold. No active defensive operations are required in a triumphalist announcement. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Superlative/hyperbole**: "one of the great hotels of the World" — ambition asserted as inevitable category membership rather than aspiration. - **Anticipatory inevitability framing**: "We look forward to *making*" — success positioned as foregone conclusion. - **Legitimacy borrowing**: The news link externalizes credibility — third-party press coverage validates the claim rather than pure self-assertion. No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or adversarial framing are present. --- ### Cognitive Status Coherent, complete, semantically clear. Single declarative clause. Low lexical complexity is genre-appropriate for a promotional tweet. Likely aide authorship significantly limits this post's value for individual cognitive assessment. No markers of dysfunction. Baseline-compatible for age 66. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Making the Old Post Office in DC one of the great hotels of the World" | **Mostly True** | GSA finalized a 60-year lease with Trump Organization on June 4–5, 2013 at $250,000/month (CPI-adjusted). Trump Organization committed $200M to redevelop the building into a 263-room luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. The hotel opened September 12, 2016 as Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. and achieved commercial success and favorable luxury-hotel recognition before Trump sold it; it rebranded and closed to Trump in May 2022. The 'great hotels of the World' superlative is aspirational hyperbole at time of posting but substantially fulfilled by the eventual outcome. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 22%) ### Indicators - Posted at 4:41 PM EDT — mid-afternoon business hours, not Trump's characteristic late-night/early-morning authentic window - Corporate 'We' pronoun instead of Trump's default first-person 'I', contrasting sharply with same-day authentic posts - Grammatically polished, complete sentence — no typos, fragments, or impulsive asides characteristic of authentic Trump tweets - Structured event announcement format — news amplification rather than emotional reaction - Anomalous capitalization of 'World' is a minor Trumpian stylistic quirk suggesting possible dictation or review, insufficient to override aide profile ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Finalized GSA lease for Old Post Office redevelopment announced June 4–5, 2013) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - achievement disclosure - aspirational framing - brand identity reinforcement ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-23._ > Making the Old Post Office in DC one of the great hotels of the World **MOSTLY TRUE** GSA finalized a 60-year lease with Trump Organization on June 4–5, 2013 at $250,000/month (CPI-adjusted). Trump Organization committed $200M to redevelop the building into a 263-room luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. The hotel opened September 12, 2016 as Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. and achieved commercial success and favorable luxury-hotel recognition before Trump sold it; it rebranded and closed to Trump in May 2022. The 'great hotels of the World' superlative is aspirational hyperbole at time of posting but substantially fulfilled by the eventual outcome. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Post_Office_(Washington,_D.C.); https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/trumps-finalize-terms-for-old-post-office-redevelopment/2013/06/05/dc4121b8-cdf6-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_blog.html; https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition/2013/06/gsa-trump-release-plans-for-old-post-office-building/ Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - real estate development (90%) - brand promotion (80%) - mild grandiosity (25%) - Old Post Office DC (90%) - aide-written (75%) - supply-seeking (60%) - Pennsylvania Avenue symbolism (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Dawn Racial Grievance Spiral Anchored by Central Park Five Denial Dominates Otherwise Promotional Day** Trump's day split sharply between a combative pre-dawn burst and a bland afternoon of brand promotion. Between roughly 3 and 5 AM Eastern, he fired off a coordinated sequence of posts attributing violent crime to Black and Hispanic communities, capped by doubling down on the guilt of the exonerated Central Park Five — calling them "muggers" eleven years after their convictions were vacated by DNA evidence. The rest of the day was routine: plugging hotels, ties, golf courses, and picking a fight with A-Rod and Vanity Fair's editor. Fifty posts total — a high-volume day suggesting restless energy and very little sleep. Full digest for 2013-06-05: https://trump.fm/date/2013-06-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, June 5). We look forward to making the Old Post Office in... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_342380669227368448 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We look forward to making the Old Post Office in DC one of..." X (Twitter), 5 Jun. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_342380669227368448. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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